Improvement in mop-wringers



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Letters Patent No. 109,307, dated November 15, 1870.;

j IMPROVEMENT IN MoP-wRiNeERs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Figure 2-is a transverse central section of the same.

Figure 3 is a perspective'view of the same. AMy invention has relation to means for wringing mops without the. direct application of the hands thereto; and

It consists in the construction and novel arrangement of spiral forked wire-in such a manner as to form a conical recess, into which the rags of the lnp are to be pressed with a twisting motion, and which will not only squeeze the body of the mop, but all the loose ends of the rags thereof, in an eioient manner.

The letter A of the drawing designates a curved bar, arranged to suit the bend of the'inuer wall of a pail or tub, and providedwith the hooks B B and setscl'ews a a, whereby the wringer is designed to be scoured rmly to the vessel at its upper edge. l

0 O represent'spiral wires, usuallyv two in number, which are securely att-ached to the bar A, and at its middle portion.

*These wires are quite close together at their commencement, and, as they proceed, they diverge from 4each other until they terminate at the ring D, which marks the base of the conical recess and bounds the mouth thereof.

The wires C C fork at different points, z z, in their:

length, the branches usually bending o from the outn side ot' the spirals. It is in these forks that the ends nesses.

of the rags are caught and squeezed. Those forks which lie nearer the ring will catch the shorter rags,

and those which are nearer-the apex of the recess will catch the ends of the longer rags.

lhe'wire C', which, in the commencement of its spiral, is arraiiged-to bend upward or from right to left', is first bent into a small depressed elbow, e, in which the ends of the main rags which compose the body of the mop are squeezed.

This bend may be duplicated in the wire C, but in general it is preferred to give this wirey the spiral curve up to its junction with the bar A, as it therefore has a tendency to guide the ends of the longest rags into the' bend e ofthe wireO'.

' This avringcr is readily attached and removed.`

When attache-d, its connect-ion with the pail is firm and steady. When this' wrnger is used, it is unnecessary to select rags of the same length in forming a mop, as itv will vwring all, whether long or short. Hence, better and cheaper mops may be employed.

It is preferred to use galvanized iron in the ernstruction of this wringer, but I do not desire to confine myself toithc use of any particular material.

. Claims.

1. 1n combination with the ring Dand an attaching device, the forked and spiral wires C C', substantially as specified.

2. The curved barl A, with the hooks B and set screws c, in combination with the ring D, the forked spiral wire C, and the forked spiral wire O', having the initial band e, as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two wit- .HOMER L. ENNES. Witnesses:

BURTON PARSONS,

MILES M. Thomson. 

